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050 0 0 _aPR 448 .B63
_bP67 2004
100 1 _aPorter, Roy,
_d1946-2002.
245 1 0 _aFlesh in the Age of Reason /
_cRoy Porter ; foreword by Simon Schama.
250 _a1st American ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bW.W. Norton & Co.,
_c2004.
300 _axviii, 573 p. ;
_c25 cm.
500 _aOriginally published: London : Allen Lane, 2003.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 475-555) and index.
505 0 _aKnow yourself -- Religion and the soul -- Medicine and the body -- The rational self -- Science rescues the spirit -- John Locke rewrites the soul -- The spectator : the polite self in the polite body -- Shaftesbury and Mandeville -- Swift and the Scriblerans : nightmare selves -- Johnson and incorporated minds -- Edward Gibbon : fame and mortality -- This mortal coil -- Flesh and form -- Putting on a face -- Sexing the self -- Telling yourself -- And who are you? -- Unreason -- Scottish selves -- Psychologizing the self -- Industrial bodies -- Dependent bodies -- William Godwin : awakening the mind -- William Blake : the body mystical -- Byron : sexy satire -- The march of mind.
520 _a"How did we come to a modern understanding of our bodies and souls? ... Roy Porter charts how, through figures as diverse as Locke, Swift, Johnson, and Gibbon, ideas about medicine, politics, and religion fundamentally changed notions of self"--p. [2] of jacket.
650 0 _aEnglish literature
_y18th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aHuman body in literature.
651 0 _aGreat Britain
_xIntellectual life
_y18th century.
650 0 _aEnlightenment
_zGreat Britain.
650 0 _aMind and body in literature.
650 0 _aRationalism in literature.
650 6 _aLitt�erature anglaise
_y18e si�ecle
_xHistoire et critique.
650 6 _aCorps humain dans la litt�erature.
650 6 _aSi�ecle des lumi�eres
_zGrande-Bretagne.
650 6 _aEsprit et corps dans la litt�erature.
650 6 _aRationalisme dans la litt�erature.
651 6 _aGrande-Bretagne
_xVie intellectuelle
_y18e si�ecle.
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